Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-27
rHrJEwIsH MOTHERS REVENGE
How Nile, Helene de Rothsehild Was Pun
ished.

How Mile. Helene de Rothsehild Was Pun
ished.
The sensation of the last week has
been the marriage of Nile. Helene Betty
de Rothschild to the Baron Van Zuylen
van Haar, of Belgium. 1t was a very
| quiet affair, only the relatives and most
intimate friends of the bride and bride
groom being present 1t is now some
months since Mile. Helene, the greatest
heiress in Europe, packed up her trunks
and went down TO Compeigne with all
| her retinue of servants, equipages, dogs
and horses, to say nothing OF her COVER
ness and her lady companion, ~ stay at
the house of the aged physician OF the
family, DR.. Raymond, and from thence
to launch the "three respectful summons
required by French law as a preliminary
to matrimony without parental consent,
at her mother, the widowed baroness Sol
ONION. There is not solitary objection
to be made to Baron van Haar, except
that he is a Christian and Catholic, and
by no means wealthy. As to the latter
disqualification, it might have been over
looked, think, as the lady's fortune
amounts to fully Sl2,0O0,OOO, with as
much more in prospect when her mother
dies. She is sure to inherit the latter
fortune, despite the wrath of the old lads
at the marriage, for, by the provision of
the Code Napoleon, no parent can dlsln-
herit child.
The baroness gave in so far as TO ac-
cord at last nominal consent to the nup-
tials, but she was not present at the we'd
ding, and has, it is said already inferred
in efIipy her disobedient daughter with all
the solemn formalities of Jewish rites.
She is one of the most bigoted in relig-
ions matters of all that bigoted family,
and has not for years past so much as
spoken to her two sisters, both of whom
married soions of the French nobility
It is a singular fact that while several of
/ the ladies of the Rothschild family have
married Christians no male member of II
has ever been known to do so. 1t is a
well known fact that Baron Alfred de
Rothschild was at one time deeply in love
with the beautiful and widowed Mrs.
Woodward formerly Miss Minnie King,
| of Georgia, and now the Maschioness of
| Anglesey), but his father, Baron James
/ of London, sternly prohibited the match,
and as he, by the English law, had thu
power of disinheriting his son, the young
man was forced to yield to the parental
dictum The Baron van Haar Is said TO
| be one of the handsomest men III Eu-
rope; tall, athletic and finely formed, with
regular features and brilliant, expressive
eyes. He belongs to one of the noblest
! families in Belgium, his young cousin
and the head OF the house being the
Prince de Looz Corswardem,
The prince was present at the wedding,
and was the first witness for the bride
groom, an Office that corresponds at a
French marriage to that of "best man"
at an English or American one. He is a
very handsome young fellow o. n, and
! has more than once been in negotiation
for the hand of an American heiress, he
being poor in pocket as he is noble by
birth. But he is dissipated youth, and
his follies and frolics have heretofore hin
dered him from marrying well-that is to
say, wealthy. The new Baroness van
Haar, the bride of the other day, is PLAIN
and stoat and strong minded, and some
thing over 80 years of age. She always
used TO declare that she never would mar
ry, and strenuously resisted all the at
tempts of her family to make match
between herself and one of her de Roths-
child cousins. She has had her own way,
and has espoused the man of her choice.
AS American woman | cannot but APP
plaud the energy and independence with
which she put her matrimonial projects
into execution. May she and her hand
some husband be as happy as the day is
long. If the external lovliness of home
has anything to do with the bliss of its
inmates they certainly will be, for all
Paris holds no more exquisite abode than
the charming hotel on the Avenue du
Bots de Boulogne, in which the newly
welded pair are to take up their resi-
dence when they return to Paris from
their honeymoon journey.